United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of petition for habeas corpus is affirmed over petitioner's claims that North Carolina's "short-form" murder indictment deprived him of notice in pretrial hearings and before the charge conference that he could be convicted of murder by torture.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/23/2006
• Published 10/23/2006

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, MOTZ, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Marilyn Gerk Ozer, William F.W. Massengale, MAssengale & Ozer, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Jonathan Porter Babb, Sr., North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Roy Cooper, Attorney General of North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.